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 Alistair MacLean in general
Newest Review: ... and icy r ain driven nearly horizontal by gale-force wind. He has a thing about getting soaked to the skin and about chattering teeth striking a staccato tattoo on the rims of glasses brimming with whiskey. He has a thing about whiskey too. Enough of it gets spilled (let alone drunk) in his later books to float ... more  ... HMS Ulysses, the ship in the book of the same name that began his career. So it should come as no surprise to learn that MacLean was an alcoholic when he was writing those later books. Just as it comes as no surprise that HMS Ulysses was based on MacL...more |
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Alistair MacLean in general: King of the Thrill (1454 words)
by amygdala - written on 27/10/00 (Very useful, 126 readings)
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What's your favorite film, and how often have you seen it? Mine is probably Kind Hearts & Coronets, and I've probably seen it coming on for a dozen times. I don't like everything about Kind Hearts, but the bits that I like I like a lot. All the same, with more money and more interest in films I'd almost certainly have found bits in another film that I liked more, and I'd almost certainly have watched them a lot more often. The mad billionaire Howard Hughes had both more money and more interest in films, and for him the best bits in the best film were the bits in Ice Station Zebra (1968). Me, I couldn't possibly comment. After all, as far ...
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